The Bongcloud
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Jul 14, 2017
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will_n wrote:
Anyone else play this? How can I refute it?!!? Sirs?!?
It can't be refuted immediately. Here's a possible continuation:
Bongcloud is actually a chess variant in which the goal is to get your K all the way across the board to the enemy's first rank. It's like not about checkmate, man...
Jul 14, 2017
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#6
I always lose when my opponent plays the Bongcloud. It's ver overpowered.
Jul 14, 2017
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#7
I read the best response for black was ke7 The Bongcloud Countergambit is it true?
It's important to set up the Mariuanzy Bind to prevent the Kingside penetration.
The Bongcloud has ever been defeated in tournament competition. When Stockfish and Komodo played 1000 games at highest setting on our best hardware with book learning on, a strange thing happened. First, seemingly random moves were played. Then, the openings we know actually evolved from prior evaluations. Then, finally, the optimum perfect play evolved from the sum of all prior evaluations and continuations, having never been seen before by humans. The single opening that emerged was the bongcloud, and through move 22, the game was solved, with 1.e4 2.Ke2 having emerged not as merely powerful, but perfect against all possible continuations.
played it against Hikaru today. Do not recommend.
Indeed, the Bongcloud is an amazing opening. I highly suggest reading this book:
http://www.chessmastery.com/bongcloud.pdf
Men play the Sicilian.
Real men play the King’s Gambit.
Champions play the Bongcloud.”
Wilhelm Steinitz
And white wins by force.